MATLAB: Dir returning different values

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Hello I have a flder in which there are 40 subfolders=[s1 s2…s40]. But when I am wrting dir in the folder location in the command window its showing all the folder and also two other elements . and ..

What does . and .. means in the case of dir ?

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'.' is shorthand for current directory

'..' is shorthand for parent directory

You could try

 cd ..

in the command line and you'll be taken one directory up

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Folder = 'path of the file';
filePattern = [Folder, '\*.*'];

It concatenates/ joins the path Folder and '\*.*'. Now filepattern can be used to get the details of the files present in the given path of all possible extensions. It will be helpfull to get the files present in the folder.

F = dir(filePattern) ;

F will be a stricture with information of files in the folder.

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dir is a function that takes a look in a determined folder (and subfolder if you command).

cd without arguments is your actual location

dir(cd) would bring you all the files in your actual location.

files = dir(cd);

Will return a struct with name of the file, folder,a boolean value about if it is a folder or not, and its modification date.

Hope it helps!

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